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Tuesday, September 01, 2009


Happy September 1st!

Sorry for the delay - life got busy! We moved, Mike had his surgery, I had a baby and now we can relax!

Jeremy Cooper Dean Szala arrived 15 days early on Wednesday August 12th at 20h06 weighing 9 pounds 5 oz. He is now nearly three weeks old. Lily is enjoying being a big sister and likes telling us when 'Jeremy' wants chocolate ice cream :-)

Mike is fully recovered from his surgery to correct his sleep apnea and we'll know in three weeks time how successful it was. Thus far, Mike is happy with the results.

As of today, I am a full time employee of the Thames Valley District School Board - on maternity leave until next August. Yippee!

Hope you enjoy the pictures. Blogger is actually not being very helpful, so it looks like we're a little short on pictures today, we'll try again later.

Cheers,
Pamela

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Tonight as I was cuddling with Lily at Bedtime I asked her what she'd like to name the baby.

Boy Names:
Ghana
Nick

Girl Names:
Ula


I am not kidding!

PPS

Monday, July 13, 2009

Happy July 13th :-)

Tonight we headed over to the Hippo Park to do a wee bit of gardening and a whole lot of wading in the wading pool. Here's Lily and her Daddy enjoying their time! Enjoy PPS












Even with how cold it was, Mike still went in the water to be with Lily :-)

Mike has done an awesome job on our garden!


Here are some of the signs for our upcoming harvest :-)



Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Happy Canada Day!


Pamela, Michael and 32 week Kung-Fo Baby
Pilon-Szala Family celebrating Canada Day!

Lily and I at Nana's

Jojo showing off his new costume.

Cora and Lily at Jojo's 4th birthday pa



Adorable Little Sarah

Before picture of our future living room
Before picture of our future bedroom - to the right is our 8 foot closet :-)

Lily and Mike on Father's Day


Lily and her Elmo sprinkler

Lily and her bubbles




Welcome to Part II of the Canada Day post :-) Lily and I had a great time tonight at the Canada Day Celebrations. I decided to forgo the fireworks as they're not ready until 10 p.m. and Lily doesn't like the combination of dark and loud noises :-) Most of these pictures are from my recent trip with our grade 7 & 8 students to Quebec City.

Breakfast chez Paillard on our last morning in Quebec City.

The souvenir I really wanted to bring home for Lily!

Pamela at 29 weeks

On our last night there we were treated to dinner and a 'dance' at the Manior Montmerency. Lt - rt are Tom (7/8 Teacher), Meaghan (Teacher-Librarian) and I (gr 6/7 Teacher)

A fellow teacher and I - Meaghan
One of the most beautiful natural wonders in Quebec is Montmerency Falls. On the left are the falls, above it the suspension bridge and to the right the stairs that we walked down (me at 29 weeks pregnant ;-)


A close up of the suspension bridge.

The Stairs!

The home that inspired the "Adam's Family" house.

We visited the copper museum where I was able to create little something for Mike :-)




Once upon a time, there was no electricity so what they did was build these little cellars along the road to keep the food cold. We had my kids convinced for a while that they were hobbit homes.

At the Bee museum we got to get up close and personal with the bees - yikes!

Ste. Anne Basilica - just gorgeous!

If you look past all the lights, you can see the Chateau Frontenac - from my hotel room :-)

Jeannine and I met during my first exchange in 1994 - happy 15th Anniversary :-)



:-)

This mural represents almost 400 years of Quebec history - really cool!

The week we went to Quebec, Maclean's cited this restaurant as a great place to eat - this is where we had breakfast on our second day.

I'm hanging out on the Duffering Terrace, just at the base of the Chateau Frontenac

I LOVE the street art in Quebec - this is one of my favourite pieces :-)

Lily enjoys her roller blades - for about 40 seconds :-) I think she just enjoys wearing 'wheels' like her Daddy.